The new Bentley Continental GT takes all of the great stuff from the outgoing car – luxurious interiors, “pillarless” hardtop coupe roofline, and available twin-turbo W12 thrust – and melds it with some welcome improvements,...
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During automotive history’s dark ages (a.k.a. the early-1970s to the mid-1980s), fuel economy shot right to the top of many new car buyers’ priority lists, as the Malaise Era (as it has come to be...
From the microsecond it went on sale in late 2003, the Bentley Continental GT has been a license to print money for its maker. It pushed the brand well outside the shadow cast by former...
It seems that not a day goes by anymore without seeing a headline blaring “Car Manufacturer XYZ Accused of Diesel Emissions Cheats!” or something to that effect. Ever since Volkswagen was outed as using a...
Developing a new car is a very, very involved process that takes years. That’s a lot of time in which some rather crazy stuff can happen: The company undertaking the task of birthing the new...
The Volkswagen Group’s revival of Bugatti has, by most metrics, gone quite well. However, the product bandwidth has been limited, to say the least: The most modern incarnation of the company has released just two...
From time to time, an automobile will come along that you know straight away will be a classic. Other times, it can be difficult to predict and a car will take the entire industry by...
Automaker-branded motor yachts, both of the conceptual and real-world varieties, aren’t that unusual these days. It seems like every ultra-luxury and exotic OEM has been represented at least once already, but it appears we’ve yet...
Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, automotive design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro and his team at Italdesign created some of the most striking supercar concepts ever seen: The Italdesign Aztec. The Bugatti EB 112. The Lamborghini Calà....
Though they may not be quite as popular as their exhaust-pressure-driven cousins with OEMs these days since they take some engine power to make engine power, superchargers are still might useful for giving an engine...